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thunderstruck wrote:

Ansel Rakestraw wrote:

Rad Hexington wrote:

at least he's got someplace to rest his arms.

I never got fat cops. Isn't there a physical fitness component? Shouldn't he be able to chase after a criminal? Lift a certain amount of pounds? Not be a hazard at the scenen of an accident but actually be of use?

How the hell does he keep his patrol job?

Get that big and if they can't fire you or put you on a desk there ought to be a mandatory policy that you're restricted to walking (jogging?) a beat until you drop back down to the more sane BMI. Assuming he's a mere 300 lbs, a nice 10-mile patrol beat walked at 2.5 mph burns 1600 calories. If he does his part, instead of walking it with a Double Whopper in his face, he might get fit.

Many years ago I was driving down Hill St. in AA past the sororities. I saw a mildy overweight girl jogging away from me with her sweatshirt hood pulled up. As I passed I looked at her and she was EATING A TWINKIE! Honey, you're doing it wrong.

Morty wrote:

thunderstruck wrote:

Ansel Rakestraw wrote:

Rad Hexington wrote:

at least he's got someplace to rest his arms.

I never got fat cops. Isn't there a physical fitness component? Shouldn't he be able to chase after a criminal? Lift a certain amount of pounds? Not be a hazard at the scenen of an accident but actually be of use?

How the hell does he keep his patrol job?

Get that big and if they can't fire you or put you on a desk there ought to be a mandatory policy that you're restricted to walking (jogging?) a beat until you drop back down to the more sane BMI. Assuming he's a mere 300 lbs, a nice 10-mile patrol beat walked at 2.5 mph burns 1600 calories. If he does his part, instead of walking it with a Double Whopper in his face, he might get fit.

Many years ago I was driving down Hill St. in AA past the sororities. I saw a mildy overweight girl jogging away from me with her sweatshirt hood pulled up. As I passed I looked at her and she was EATING A TWINKIE! Honey, you're doing it wrong.

My brother was a cop in Houston and he explained it to me this way: when you are behind the wheel of a cruiser it can be dangerous, lots of playerz packin heat.
Burger joints, Doughnut shops and pizza joints like the cops to drop by all the time, at different times and they are only too eager to give them the fattening chow for the protection they receive. The logic was, the sooner you got fat, the sonner they took you out of the cruiser and put you behind a desk in the station, where your chances of getting shot were far lower. I don't know if it works that way today, but in the 80s it worked that way.

Kevin Smith oversized? ejected from flight

AP – FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2008 file photo Kevin Smith arrives at the premiere of 'Zach and Miri Make A … 1 hr 12 mins ago

LOS ANGELES – Kevin Smith says he's "way fat," but that shouldn't stop him from flying.

The director and actor says a pilot ejected him from a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Burbank, Calif., saying he didn't fit properly in a single seat.

Smith raised a stink about the incident on his Twitter page Sunday, saying "I'm way fat, but I'm not there just yet," and "If you look like me, you may be ejected from Southwest Air."

He posted a picture of himself sitting on the plane with his cheeks puffed out.

Southwest says it "Customer of Size" policy require travelers must be able to fit safely and comfortably in one seat or make other arrangements.

After a storm of angry online comments from Smith and his fans, the airline issued an apology first from its own Twitter account and later in a statement on its Web site titled "Not So Silent Bob," a jovial jab at the Silent Bob character Smith plays in many of his films.

"We would like to echo our tweets and again offer our heartfelt apologies to you," the statement said.

The airline said it also accommodated Smith on a later flight, gave him a $100 voucher and apologized by phone.

Both Smith and the airline acknowledged that he had bought two seats for his original flight from Oakland, where he had spoken at the Macworld Expo conference.

But he was flying standby in order to catch an earlier flight, and only one was available.

Smith insisted that he was still able to put both armrests down and buckle his seat belt, which is Southwest's standard.

Smith is the director of the new Bruce Willis movie "Cop Out," and previously directed the films "Clerks" and "Chasing Amy."

"We would like to echo our tweets and again offer our heartfelt apologies to you," the statement said.

Sgt. Rusty Lamay testified that on the trip from Owosso Police Department to the Shiawassee County Jail that afternoon, Drake discussed a trip to Hawaii he had been saving for, and "now he wasn't going to be able to go to Hawaii."

Officer Douglas Stanhope of the Owosso Police Department

Sgt. Rusty Lamay

400-pound woman caught shoplifting when motorized cart gets stuck at Rochester Hills Meijer ... police use Taser to subdue her

guest wrote:

400-pound woman caught shoplifting when motorized cart gets stuck at Rochester Hills Meijer ... police use Taser to subdue her

Roquefort Robert wrote:They used a taser? Where was she going to go? I'm betting that they didn't have to use the taser, they just did it because they wanted to. Can't say I blame them, who wouldn't want to tase a 400lb. woman?

guest wrote:

Roquefort Robert wrote:They used a taser? Where was she going to go? I'm betting that they didn't have to use the taser, they just did it because they wanted to. Can't say I blame them, who wouldn't want to tase a 400lb. woman?

Most of the comments following the story question what kind of pussy needs to tase a 400lb woman. I guess they don't think that a fist with 400 pounds behind it can pack a whallop. When the talking is done, a few thousand volts can be an effective persuader.

Mulligan wrote:I read that the last straw was when she googled herself and found a comment saying she used to be hot but now she looks like Elton John. I guess that would do it for anyone.

Woman cleared in husband's death loses custody of sons
Mike Martindale / The Detroit News

Pontiac— An Oakland Circuit judge ruled today that parental rights of a Farmington Hills woman previously cleared in the death of her husband should be terminated based on child protection reports that she was woefully neglectful and apparently mentally unable to care for her two sons.

Hallmark noted the two boys lacked nutritional food and survived primarily on pizza, carryout food and "whatever they could find in the house."

The 11-year-old boy weighs 250 pounds and his brother is also obese, Hallmark noted, which she said was due to them being "lonely, afraid and confused."

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110317/MET ... in-husband’s-death-loses-custody-of-sons#ixzz1Gtbsy4R8